SwordAcsepto
Trademarks & Designs Search System
A search tool for both verbal & figurative marks
With Acsepto®, you will manage both your verbal and figurative search procedures, from TM classification to the printing of your result reports.
Acsepto®’s key features are:
• A wide range of tools to simplify your verbal and figurative coding operations
• Integration of the verbal and figurative questions into a single operation
• Production of a single, customisable results report, integrating both verbal and figurative hits
• Search on different databases: national marks, IR (WIPO), CTM (OHIM), INN (WHO), Art 6ter (UN), Company names…
Fast, easy & efficient Figurative search
• Acsepto®'s visual representation of the question limits the risks of errors. Figurative coding and searching can be based on the Vienna Classification or any other hierarchical classification. Coding and figurative question constructions are simplified by powerful navigation tools.
• Image recognition is used to order search results by decreasing similarity and to get additional results based on shape and colours.
Exhaustive & discriminating Verbal search
• Acsepto® calculates a global value integrating all aspects of verbal similarity (anagrams, prefix, suffix and infix similarity, word structure, etc…). Comparison covers phonetic similarity in up to 20 different languages.
• Unicode support allows management of various alphabets.
• The automatic coding of trademark names and of search queries, based on an upgradable dictionary, discriminates significant words, acronyms and numbers.
• Templates are used to adapt queries according to different search corpuses or to dedicated types of search, adjusting the similarity level.
A flexible question execution procedure
Acsepto® is adapted to various working practices and search services:
• Interactive and batch searches
• Three search needs are covered: Preliminary searches, TM examination and TM watching
Rich presentation of results and filter facilities
During verbal and figurative processing of results, the user has instant access to a wide range of information about cited marks (denomination, application number and date, figurative coding and images, and, according to availability in a dedicated database, full bibliographic data). Display options can hide part of the results on several criteria (same owner as the question mark…).
Acsepto® Design
Using Locarno classification, all the same facilities are available as for Trademarks. Acsepto® Design handles in addition multi-view display.
Interfaces to external systems
Acsepto® is ready to be interfaced by your IT team with your own Trademark administration or invoicing systems, using mechanisms for importing details of Trademarks and of searches and exporting results, in different formats (Structured flat files or XML), or web services. Additional components update your search database from other entities (OHIM, WIPO…)
Acsepto Watch
A trademark watch is an essential part of an effective trademark maintenance. Acsepto® implements watch services which can be proposed by Offices to alert subscribers to potentially conflicting trademark applications and registrations.
Web search access
Acsepto® services are available through Internet browser, for IP agents and your on-line clients.
Image Recognition module
Sword has developed an image recognition module specifically designed with the characteristics of figurative Trademarks in mind. This can be used as stand-alone tool or can be integrated to Acsepto®.
